English: Drawing of a Pompeii fresco depicting Ariadne abandoned on Naxos with Eros by Henri Roux Ainé, 1870. Translated related text: Another painting from the House of Homer. It represents the well-known subject of Ariadne abandoned by Theseus on the shore of Naxos. In an attitude which is that of attention and remembrance, the fingers of her left hand raised to her chin, Ariadne seems to go over in her memory all her lost happiness, all her present pain; and Love, or his own Genius, aids her in this sad enumeration, by pointing out to her the perjured nave which flees on the horizon.

The drawing of these two figures is very well arranged: we notice a contrast of almost parallel lines, without however reaching the degree where this arrangement would be a defect. The torso of the daughter of Minos is of great beauty. A violet drapery protects her from the roughness of the shore where she is seated and whose pebbles must have hurt her beautiful bare feet. We notice, in addition to her gold necklace and her pendant earrings, two strips that she wears as a necklace, and which cross on her chest.

Identifier: herculanumetpomp18703barr (find matches)
Title: Herculanum et Pompéi, recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques, etc., découverts jusqu'à ce jour, et reproduits d'apreès Le antichita di Ercolano, Il Museo borbonico, et tous les ouvrages analogues
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Barré, Louis, 1799-1857 Roux, H. (Henri), Sr Bouchet, Adolphe
Subjects: Art, Greco-Roman
Publisher: Paris, Firmin Didot frères, fils et cie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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